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Cancer (June 22 - July 23)
Yours is the only sign of the zodiac ruled by the Moon. One of your greatest talents is to provide encouragement. You can get everyone busy in the right direction and the most difficult jobs done with a smile. Healthy and fun snacks help, too. Cancer is ruled by the Moon and it represents emotional wellbeing, home, family, food, security and nurturing.
The Moon is on a new 18 year cycle since we had Lunar Standstills in 2006. Now that Saturn is in Virgo until July 21, 2010 every time we experience the Moon in Capricorn (roughly 2-3 days every month) it will be strongly influenced by Saturn in Virgo. This pairing loves hard work so we’ll all be accomplishing more over the next two years.
Where’s the Moon now?
Cancer Keywords
- Ruling Planet - Moon the Nurturer. FYI: The Moon moves 1.5 inches away further from the Earth each year.
- Mode - Cardinal
- Element - Water
- Body - Stomach, breasts
- Color - Silver, smokey blue, white
- Metal - Silver
- Animal - Crab, crustaceans
- Time of Day - Night time
- Day of the Week - Monday is named after the Moon and hence associated with Moodiness
- Represented by - The mountain stream pool of water
- Opposite sign - Capricorn
- Subsconsicous mind sign - Gemini, ruled by Mercury
Cancer Geocentric Chart Positions of Houses, Signs and Planets
Solar Cancer is located between Gemini in the 12th house and Leo in the 2nd house.
- 1st house of self, your whole life: Cancer and the Moon
- 2nd house of money and values: Leo and the Sun
- 3rd house of communications: Virgo and Mercury
- 4th house of family and cultural roots: Libra and Venus
- 5th house of kids and creative expression: Scorpio and Mars
- 6th house of work and health: Sagittarius and Jupiter
- 7th house of partnerships and people who matter: Capricorn and Saturn
- 8th house of sex and obsessions: Aquarius and Saturn
- 9th house of your brain and what you believe: Pisces and Jupiter
- 10th house of your professionalism and/or your dominant parent: Aries and Mars
- 11th house of friends, groups, clubs, networks: Taurus and Venus
- 12th house of fears: Gemini and Mercury
TIP: As the Moon moves through the zodiac and changes signs every 2.5 days, you can unconsciously take on personality characteristics and emotional depths of that sign, for the good or not. This can make you a moody person to live with, and to work around. Controlling mood swings is easier than you can imagine and you can do it the natural way. If you consciously know which signs the Moon is moving through on any given day, then you can consicously choose your attitude and create a more consistent persona for others to relate to. For example, when the Moon is in a certain sign, you get ruled by the planet associated with that sign, unless you develop the knack for blending your subconscious moods and emotions with your consicous mind, behavior and actions:
- When the Moon is in Aries you soak up energy associated with Mars
- When the Moon is in Taurus you soak up energy associated with Venus
- When the Moon is in Gemini you soak up energy associated with Mercury
- When the Moon is in Cancer you soak up energy associated with Moon
- When the Moon is in Leo you soak up energy associated with Sun
- When the Moon is in Virgo you soak up energy associated with Mercury
- When the Moon is in Libra you soak up energy associated with Venus
- When the Moon is in Scorpio you soak up energy associated with Pluto and Mars
- When the Moon is in Sagittarius you soak up energy associated with Jupiter
- When the Moon is in Capricorn you soak up energy associated with Saturn
- When the Moon is in Aquarius you soak up energy associated with (O)uranus and Saturn
- When the Moon is in Pisces you soak up energy associated with Jupiter and Neptune
It also helps if you know if the Moon is Waxing or Waning because your own energy and moods will seek to that water level.
Make the most of the Moon’s cycles, set goals with corresponding deadlines. The Sun, Earth and Moon never Retrograde. Your moods strongly resonate to your thoughts, feelings, moods, (and panic or anxiety levels) at least 7 Lunar cycles.
- Synodic month (moon) cycle of 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 2.8 seconds or 29.5306 days
- Mentonic cycle of 19.61 years (named after Menton, the Greek astronomer)
- The saros (eclipse) cycle of 6585.23 days or 18 years, 11 days
- High and low tides shorter cycle of approximately two and one half days
- A daily cycle of 6 hours 12 and minutes which corresponds with the high and low tides.
- The Lunar North-South Nodes also known as the Dragon’s Head and Tail apply to you as they always move Retrograde and change signs every 18 months.
- The Lunar Standstill Season every 18 years
The oldest recorded Moon song of this century and the most popularized of all Moon songs is "Shine On Harvest Moon," written in 1903 by Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. (The original sheet music of this song is owned by Paul McCartney today.) Sometimes just invoking the image of the Moon in the name of a band is enough to capture attention such as the French group, "Fool Moon," or the group "Moon Riders". The Moon will continue its serenade, whether the music is Jazz inspired or Bluegrass; classical music, rock or punk; from Frank Sinatra's, "Fly me to the Moon," to Elvis Presley's, "Blue Moon". Whether the Moon sings in Sir Thomas of Peeping's medieval ballard "Uponst Thy Glorious Moon I Hath Gazed", or Cat Steven's "Moonshadow," the Moon shines on, and always in a fresh new form. The Moon has inspired musicians throughout time, look at the list of Moon Songs.
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